“Being able to cry for Winter helped me cry for myself,” she said about the connection she shares to her character in the seventh season.

“And it’s been really healing and cathartic in an amazing way, and getting to be around all the incredible people on set, they’ve become like a family to me, and I cannot thank Ryan enough,” she added. “Honestly, it kind of saved my life.”

Lourd said she’s formed incredible bonds with her costars on “AHS: Apocalypse.”

“These women are some of my best friends now. Leslie Grossman, Sarah [Paulson], Emma [Roberts], it’s incredible to be on set with them,” she told “ET.” “I feel so lucky, I pinch myself every day. It’s so fun.”

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Lourd said working on the show has been “challenging” yet “so much fun.”

“I would do as many seasons as they would offer me,” Lourd said. “And I would do anything Ryan asked me to do. I trust him with all of my heart.”

She also wholeheartedly supports the female empowerment theme is season eight.

“It means so much more because of the #MeToo movement,” she said. “Getting to watch all of us be more powerful than even the antichrist, it was so inspirational, I think, and such a great message for young girls and women out there.”